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okay then, its time for me to re-install windows xp pro again. i have done it before with no worries, so theres no hassles there.
but last time i was forced into reinstalling because windows decided to die and i did not have any backups of my essential data... oops!

but not this time! im prepaired! i have backed up all of my essential stuff to my second partition, noted down all of the critical settings etc...
what i am wondering is, are there any tips or tricks that i should know when installing xp? a different way of doing it that will result in a better windows eXPerience (if thats possible!) maybe? anything that i should or should not do?

on another related topic, after installing xp i will be installing ubuntu for dual booting goodness! again i have succesfully done this before but last time GRUB got some funky errors and would not work so in the end i put the windows boot loader back and deleted ubuntu.
again, im asking if their are any tips or tricks to installing ubuntu, what size swap drive (?) shuld i have? how big of a partition should i give ubuntu ? (i have 20gb available for windows and ububntu)

if anyone has any words of wisdom or advice, they will be greatly appreciated!

thanks,
jupiter3888

PS. i will be installing the OS's on an asus A4l laptop with 256mb ram, 2.8GHz celeron, 40gb hdd, wireless etc.
just incase if u needed to know!

When i had xp and ubuntu in dual boot, ubuntu worked fine with 5gigs.
Minium is (i guess) 1 gig. Best choice is, skip the xp installing and give whole 20gigs for ubuntu :lol:

yeah i am going to go with 1gb because of lack of space.
im not ready to go linux just by itself yet, im still a major newbie at linux.

1 gb is not going to be enough for ubuntu.

I'd go with 5gb. It's enough to get all the programs you want and have just enough left over to have some fun.

I partition my drive like so:

5 GB = reiserfs, linux partition, mount point = /
512 MB = swap partition
50 GB = NTFS Windows partition, mount point = /media/windows

it works pretty good.

Then after installation i log in as root, update /boot/grub/menu.lst so that the list doesn't display unnecessary items, and defaults to what I want and the delay is acceptable, and then rub grub-install to propagate that change.

I rather like Ubuntu, as it's the only Linux that has properly detected most of my laptop hardware (though still getting the wireless ethernet to work was a real trick). Definately worthwhile...

Peace
- Eric

Quote:1 gb is not going to be enough for ubuntu.

I'd go with 5gb. It's enough to get all the programs you want and have just enough left over to have some fun.

sorry, i was meaning 1gb for the swap partition. i am going to go with 5gb for the ubuntu partition.

Quote:Then after installation i log in as root, update /boot/grub/menu.lst so that the list doesn't display unnecessary items, and defaults to what I want and the delay is acceptable, and then rub grub-install to propagate that change.

thanksfor those tips neuro! there exactly the kind im looking for.

Quote:I rather like Ubuntu, as it's the only Linux that has properly detected most of my laptop hardware (though still getting the wireless ethernet to work was a real trick). Definately worthwhile...

dang, i use the wifi network quite a bit, so it will be hard to set up huh? darn,okay ill try and have a go at it, do some research and stuff.

ill probably install it this w/end. wish me luck!